The show American Megastar is the hottest thing on television but its associate producer, Mandalay Florentino, is worried. She's just arrived in the tiny town of Daily, Texas, to arrange a surprise "reunion concert" for hometown finalist Amber Amberson. Only it turns out everyone in town seems... read more
“Just because I didn't create the plan didn't mean a plan didn't exist.”
sometimes in life you carry the ball, sometimes you just run along, and sometimes you're flat on your back, but just because you don't have the ball don't mean it's not moving toward the goal. There's a whole team of men and angels at work in every life.'Highlighted by 124 Kindle customers
Sometimes it ain't the drunk or the sinner who needs a shovel across the rear, it's the ones who could quote you chapter and verse about grace, but don't hand it out. The next time I got the urge to rebuke, I was gonna think of Andy and remind myself that love covers over a multitude of sins. In point of fact, it covers over them all.Highlighted by 111 Kindle customers
I was here for a reason. Just because I didn't create the plan didn't mean a plan didn't exist.Highlighted by 101 Kindle customers
'You got to remember that when things are out of our hands, that doesn't mean they're not in God's.Highlighted by 98 Kindle customers
Perhaps it had been there in me all along-the belief that there is a plan and a purpose, that God whispers into every life some things that are beyond the scope of the mind and can only be felt with the heart and the spirit. Those dreams, the ones that are dreamed for us, not by us, are the truest of all.Highlighted by 69 Kindle customers
but it's easy to mind your own business when someone else's business looks like too much trouble.Highlighted by 55 Kindle customers
My mama used to say the blues is an ailment that don't like no sunshine in the room.Highlighted by 49 Kindle customers
'When something happens like what's happened to Chris, you don't have any choice but to quit fighting the sails and let the wind move the boat-drift on faith for a while.'Highlighted by 47 Kindle customers
'Quit fighting the sails and let the wind move the boat-drift on faith for a while.' It's hard to drift on something you don't acknowledge. Over the years of my adulthood, I'd strayed so far from a childlike confidence in God's ability to guide the tide of human events that there was nothing left to buoy me when the storms blew in. I'd treaded water to the point of exhaustion, and now I could either sink below the surface or stop swimming, let go, and allow the current to carry me along.Highlighted by 42 Kindle customers
The folks who mind don't matter, and the folks who matter don't mind-I saw that on a T-shirt someplaceHighlighted by 11 Kindle customers
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